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Pluto

Ok, is this Pluto the dog or Pluto the planet? It is the planet, oops, I meant the dwarf planet. I was thinking of posting a picture of Pluto (the dog), but all images are licensed to Disney. You’ll have to do your own searching.

Back to the dwarf planet, Pluto. The New Horizon spacecraft has spent nearly 10 years to get to Pluto and in the last few weeks, has been transmitting back incredibly detailed photos of Pluto.

I also learned that the demotion to dwarf status was not taken well at all, particularly in New Mexico, where a resolution in the legislature passed, designating Pluto as a planet, because the scientist that discovered Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, lived in New Mexico.

In 1930, Clyde was 24 years old when he discovered Pluto. He did not have, at that time, any formal education beyond a high school degree. But he had built telescopes and designed lenses and mirrors on his family’s farm, so the Lowell Observatory hired him in 1929. Later, studied astronomy at the University of Kansas, and earned a BS and MS degrees.